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ACR is seeking archival information, historical records, or any data related to the circulation of fiction from all sources in Australia since 1800. In particular we are interested in records from, or information about:

Australian Mechanics Institutes, Literary Institutes, and Schools of Arts

public libraries

commercial subscription or circulating libraries

private libraries and collections

book clubs

booksellers records

newspapers and magazines

diaries or letters

We also welcome proposals to submit structured information (in the form of tables, spreadsheets, or databases) to ACR.

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For a brief moment in the history of the modern West, between about 1880 and 1920, narrative fiction in books, newspapers, and magazines dominated the rapidly growing markets for transnational mass-produced popular entertainment in English, before being challenged successively by cinema, radio, and television.